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Overview and Learning Goals

Overview

The major in visual arts is intended to encourage a sensitive development of perceptual, creative, and critical abilities in visual expression.

Visual Arts Learning Goals

• Develop skills of direct observation of the world in order to examine the relationship between seeing and knowing.
• Embark upon a range of material explorations in order to gain technical proficiency and facility with multiple means of artistic production.
• Master the formal elements of visual design in order to articulate ideas and to develop an individual artistic language.
• Independently develop and be self-critical of one’s creative production.
• Engage in critical discourse and extend it to one’s daily life.
• Identify the concerns and motivations informing one’s practice and articulate their significance within global historical and contemporary context.
• Locate one’s work within the larger conversations defining the liberal arts.

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Options for Majoring or Minoring in the Department

Students may elect to major in visual arts, the art history and visual arts interdisciplinary major, or to coordinate a major in visual arts with digital and computational studies, education, or environmental studies. Students pursuing coordinate or interdisciplinary majors may not normally elect a second major. Non-majors may elect to minor in visual arts.